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A sampling of some of the bizarro search terms with (thankfully) low numbers that brought people to BOOKGASM over the last 30ish days:
• when a women get excited is a man usual
• submarine porn
• breaking dawn honeymoon fanfic
• hermione goes goth
• tiger man sex comic
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With HALF A CROWN, author Jo Walton brings her stunning and disturbing alternate-reality series — starting so brilliantly with FARTHING and continuing with HA’PENNY — to a close. Frankly, I had hoped we would run through all the British monetary terms, but it was a good decision to stop the series here, creating a coherent whole and closure for characters we’ve come to care about.
If you’re new to the series, it’s an alternative historical trilogy, a “what if” scenario in which Germany does not go to war with the rest of the world in the 1940s. Instead, Britain follows the notorious appeasement route. Winston Churchill is discredited, and the UK turns into a fascist government under the hand of Prime Minister Mark Normanby.
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All the news that’s fit to capsulize!
WHO WANTS HOT LINKS?
• Mark your calendars: 2009′s Free Comic Book Day is Saturday, May 2, piggybacking off the theatrical release of X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE.
• Speaking of comics, Marvel and Tor have joined forces to let you read ENDER’S GAME: BATTLE SCHOOL #1 for free online, this month only. The comic coincides with the release of Orson Scott Card’s ENDER IN EXILE, the latest entry in the series.
• Orbit Books is giving away a chain mail T-shirt to promote K.J. Parker’s THE COMPANY. Just don’t wear it on a date … not that you’d have one.
• If you want to start a new book club, The Reading Club is a website that offers more than 40 articles on a variety of topics, from starting one to dealing with problem members, and everything in between. —Rod Lott
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Open up any library book you’ve checked out. See that date? Have it back by then or Special Agent Bay of Library Police will be on your ass.
You don’t want him on your ass.
At once a sly parody, engaging police procedural and an unlikely adaptation of a true story, Jason Shiga’s BOOKHUNTER is a wholly original graphic novel with a sense of humor as strong as its franchise-ready concept and its artists’ bold-line style.
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